Change & Continuity

By TheodoreElizanderMosesCervantessetnavreCsesoMrednazilEerodoehT & SaeedAhmeddemhAdeeaS
Changes demography

• The Bubonic Plauge brought on a decline in the population
  • 1300c.e -China's population stood at 85 millions
  • 1400c.e -77 years of the Bubonic Plauge had reduced to 75 million
  • A century later it shot back up to 100 million
• Little Ice Age
  • In 1300 - global climates declined throughout the world, cause a "Little Ice Age"
  • Shorter growing seasons, agriculture decline, led to famine*
• Great Khan gets kicked out of China
  • Hong Wu becomes emperor of Ming Dynasty
  • Cultural traditions back

Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta inspirations

• Marco Polo book inspired people to go to China
• Ibn Battuta provided guidance in the ways of Islam
• Europe
  • France and England Hundred year war (1337-1453)
  • Spain united by Catholic Kings marrige (Fernando of Aragon Isabel of Castile)
• Renaissance Innovation
  • New ideas, improvements on art and architecture
  • Artist sought realism in art.
  • Studied the human body
• Sugarcanes & Gunpowder
  • Muslims became large cultivators of sugarcanes
  • Facilitated the westward spread of sugarcane
  • Mongol invaders learned about gunpowder from Chinese military used in their artillery

Continuity

• Ming Dynasty government system was similar to the older dynasties

Approved by Karina Maloney